PTSD for girls!

This is a hard blog for me to write but I am compelled to write it. I’m not sure why but here it is. Once when I was 10, my parents got into a fight first thing in the morning. It was a Sunday. It was December. I know it was a Sunday because I…

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How Millennials could save the profession of nursing

Let me just start this off by saying this blog will be full of generalities. These generalities are based on years of observing nurses and watching a new generation of nurses enter the profession. This is purely my opinion. Millennials are the generation born between 1980-2000. As a group, they are known as the participation…

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Hi, I am a nurse

Hi, I’m a nurse.  This is me, coffeeing up to work a shift in an urban emergency room in St. Louis.  Today, I will work along side black people, white people, Asians, MUSLIMS, Christians, Buddhists, atheists, etc.  We will work to put together your sons and daughters who will get shot.  They might be shot…

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How to blend a family

I really have no idea how to properly blend a family.  I’m not really sure there is a right or wrong way.  All I know is, my little family is perfectly imperfect.  We spent the weekend in our RV camping, in the rain.  Our teenager was happy, smiling, then not so happy, then happy again. …

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The Wisdom to Know the Difference

The Wisdom to Know the Difference I used to love the show Sister Wives. I did not agree with them regarding religion, nor the reasons that the chose a polygamist lifestyle. I did not relate to sharing a husband. I found the husband to be totally annoying. What I loved about it was the relationship…

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Nurses are Crazy. Here’s why.

Nurses are Crazy  Here’s why. In late 1999, my friend and I backpacked across Costa Rica for ten days. We had very little with us, we slept in Hostels and crappy hotels, the most expensive of which was $3 per night.  When we had the opportunity to shower, the water was cold and likely not…

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Roller skating through life

IMG_3313   How to roller skate through life When I was a kid, going to the skating rink was the thing to do on the weekends. The cool skating rink in my hometown was a place called LaJolla. One weekend when I was about 12, I went to LaJolla by myself. I was minding my…

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The Red String

Red String There is a legend in Japan that says two people who are destined to be together are bound by a red string tied to their pinkies. The string may become tangled, knotted, messed up, but it can never be cut. Eventually, those two people will find each other again. The legend says that…

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Some Walks You Have To Take Alone

I remember once when I was 16 or 17 I was hanging out at my house with a friend. We were in my room listening to The Cure on vinyl, EMO’ing out. My parents had been divorced for like a year, and my mom and I were living in a house in North County with…

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Staring down the second half of your life

Staring Down the Second Half of Your Life An interesting thing happened to me when I started my 40’s.  I found myself taking a brutally honest inventory of my life.  This led to drastic changes which impacted  many lives, not just my own.  My kids lives were turned upside down for a while, my ex…

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